Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-23
BARTON COUNTY DEMocRAT
OFFICIAL PAPER OF BARTON COUNTY.
GREAT BEND, KASI
LOCAL NEWS

VIC dIo piedSeu 10 Say InaU MIS-. 4.
E. Sowle is still improving.
Mr.. Zeller is working five men on
the painting of the court house.
Hold the fort, the gas wells COM
ing; the street-cars are on the way.
After July the A.O.U.W, will meet
every Tuesday evening at the GAR.
Hall.
The Buckland-Moses building has
reached the second story, and the
work is being pushed right along.
Ed @. auckland returned from To-
peka last night, where he has grad
uated with high honors from Wash
burn college.
A city exchange says: "Once
mores the watermelon of the solid
south comes up to work its wild and
CHASTITY revenge"
Mr.. j. H. Jennison has gone to
the north part Of the county to spend
few days fighting flies and eating of
the fat Of the land"
Heike Feldkamp, of the Barton
County bakery, cut his thumb with
piece of rusty tin, and the wound is
giving him great pain.
Mr.. w. M. Gunnell is talking of
building out in the suburbs, provid-
ing the street railway is laid in his
direction and the streets graded and
sidewalks built.
MARKEDLY Rev. Enyeart, of
this place, at the Duesenburg ranch,
near Clafin, Tuesday, Mr.. G.. Alb
bro Duesenburg to Miss Louisa Nor
win, of New York City.
We heard one young man say that
Prof. Bozarth promised to bring him
down some stars and few moons as
pocket pieces; but we learn the only
stars the Professor saw were upon his
striking terra frma.
Mrs. w. S. Vincent is at present
ON visit to relatives and friends !
in central Iowa to be gone about a
month or six weeks. She was accom~
panied as far as Emporia by Mrs.
Grayson, formerly with Mrs. w. S.
Lee.
n branch of the American Bible
Society has been established at Great |
Bend, and Mr.. w. j. Murphy is the |
agent. The object of this society is to !
establish a permanent Bible depository |
in Barton county, and to see that every |
family in the county has a Bible.
A team belonging to w. B. Cor
nell took fright Monday and went
tearing along the street until they
came to his house when they turned
into the barnyard, damaging the
wagon considerably and running a
gate which Mr.. Cornell had fixed in
the morning.
Tuesday just before noon COM
mittee of Santa Fe railroad officials
came into the city and stopped for
some time While it is not known
certainly, it is generally supposed
that they came for the purpose of see
ing where the depot should be located.
After short STOP they took their
special and went on.
a meeting of the trustees of Cen
trail Kansas college will be held
Friday afternoon. In the evening
public meeting will be held at the
court house which will be addressed
by visiting trustees and others. Mat
tiers of great Importance to the city
and the college will be considered.
Let all the citizens attend.
There was concourse of people
gathered near the Missouri Pacific de-
pot Tuesday afternoon to witness a
balloon ascension. After some time
spent i'll waiting, the balloon was
finally filled and Prof Bazarth gave
the word to let it go. The balloon
arose to a height of, probably, 800 or
400 feet, sailing off toward the south
east part of town and alighting about
800 yards from where the ascension
was made. Altogether, it was very
pretty ascension and the people
cheered Justify while Prof. Bazarth
performed some daring feats in mid